Watching daytime television could vegetize anyone.

Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.

Their leaves are particoloured like a tartan, and, although called tricolours, they are often, in fact, quadricoloured.

The beautiful Akee (Blighia sapida), originally brought from the West Coast of Africa by slave ships, is now a common tree in the West Indies, and I noticed several fine specimens in Belize.